From: adams@pdv2.fmr.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de (Adams) Subject: Re: PowerPC 601 port of linux ? Date: 9 May 1993 22:20:54
>Nope, most of the changes would be porting GCC & GAS to the Power PC;
>it's kind of important to have a compiler & assembler.
That should be underway meanwhile ;->>...
I would imagine, that the real problem will be mapping 386--properties
(tables etc) to powerPC, perhaps following the Alpha/HAL approach,
designing your own instructions and implementing them in microcode to
be executed on your RISC system (I know, RISCs lack microcode per
definition, but please, before flame war starts, have a look at
gatekeeper.dec.com and the docs about alpha ...). OR clean up Linux
and discard all the Intel-dependencies ... ;-<
best, adams